09-22-2019, 07:45 AM
(09-21-2019, 10:20 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: It's necessary to do a good deal of homework to understand whether a 64-bit OS will benefit a particular application.
Even a little browsing will show there's so many if's, and's, and but's that there isn't any easy-to-digest, one-size-fits-all answer. I could go on at length but I won't (hint, I used to do heavy-duty scientific computations in my professional life, where we were squeezing the life out of the computers and their compilers).
Obviously I'm very dubious that it offers any practical advantage with our audio playback even assuming moOde and all its libraries and supporting functions were recompiled to be 64-bit rather than 32-bit binaries.
But FOSS gives everybody the freedom to try it for themselves. Bottom line: does it help you enjoy the music?
Regards,
Kent
sox resampling and mpd could benefit from 64-bit code, and on the UI front, so could php. Userland 64-bit stuff is some way off, though.
Still awaiting people's A/B listening tests
Phil
